שְׁמִינִי
eighth
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8066 appears in the Book of Leviticus — 10 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus
- Leviticus 9:1 הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֔י ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms It happened on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
- Leviticus 12:3 הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֑י ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
- Leviticus 14:10 הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֗י ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
- Leviticus 14:23 הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֛י ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms "On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 15:14 הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֗י ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms "'On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest:
- Leviticus 15:29 הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֗י ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 22:27 הַ/שְּׁמִינִי֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms "When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 23:36 הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֡י ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
- Leviticus 23:39 הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֖י ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
- Leviticus 25:22 הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֔ת ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number fs You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
שמיני (shᵉmîynîy) is a Hebrew adjective most often rendered “eighth.” Debuting at Exodus 22:30, it then recurs through the corpus. With 27 verses in 9 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Leviticus, which alone accounts for 37% of its uses. From the same root come שמנה, שמנים and שמינית. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8066 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 27
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 27 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,190
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,190 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 27 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 10 verses 37%
- 1 Chronicles 5 verses 19%
- 1 Kings 4 verses 15%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 27 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 14 verses · 52%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 26%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 22%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Eighth 24×
- American Standard Version: Eighth 24×
- Berean Standard Bible: Eighth 27×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Eighth 27×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8066 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8066 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8066 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8066 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- eighth (ordinal number)
Word origin
Derived from שמנה (shᵉmôneh) (H8083) — eight.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שְׁמִינִי
- eighth; one eighth. Sifra Sh’mini, Milluim, beg. ש׳ למנין the eighth day in the order of counting (from the initiation of the priests); ש׳ לחדש the eighth day of the month. Y. Sabb. VIII, 11ᵃ bot.; Y. Pes. X, 37ᶜ bot. חצי שמינית half an eighth (of a Log); a. v. fr.—Esp. שמיני, or ש׳ של חג the eighth day of the Succoth festival. Succ. 47ᵃ אומרים זמן בש׳ של חג we recite the benediction for the entrance of a festival (זְמָן) on the eighth day &c. Ib., a. fr. ש׳ רגל וכ׳ the eighth day is a festival for itself; a. fr.—Pl. fem. שְׁמִינִיּוֹת. Yalk. Esth. 1048 ארבעים ש׳ (not שמציות) forty eighths (of a Kab), v. תּוֹמָן.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H8066 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֔י | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 12:12 | 8 |
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֗י | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 14:10 | 4 |
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֖י | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 22:30 | 3 |
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִי֙ | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 27:11 | 3 |
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֑י | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 26:5 | 2 |
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֛י | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 14:23 | 2 |
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֣י | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 25:15 | 2 |
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֔ת | Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 25:22 | 1 |
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֜י | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 43:27 | 1 |
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִ֡י | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 23:36 | 1 |
| הַ/שְּׁמִינִֽי | Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 24:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8066, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 25 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 27 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 22:30
- Leviticus 9:1
- Numbers 6:10
- 1 Kings 8:66
- 1 Chronicles 12:12
- 2 Chronicles 7:9
- Ezekiel 43:27
- Zechariah 1:1
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
